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how boring would a gen z Trumann show be?????? i mean watching them watch tiktok all day

modern family captures it the best i feel

make me feel loved reply to my comment. now.

I resonate with this so much, it’s also nice seeing sips still streaming, I used to watch all of his Minecraft videos with them and hat films🥲

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I just watched the truman show and now im getting recommended videos related to the truman show wtf

Good video. Paul cuts right to the truth of the matter. Netflix would never allow content like this on their platform. It's too simple and cheaply made. Netflix hates simple truths. It can't compete with a simple truth. I strongly agree with the idea that the internet is basically a third space. The internet is like a coffee shop where you go to sit with strangers. That arms length distance is a human sweet spot. Not to far, not to close. Nothing really ever changes because nothing is really ever new.

w vid, definitely will be tuning in again. I'd recommend maybe changing the background in the video for something once so often to change up the visuals even more.

Great video, very well-written and concise.

Something that took me a while to realise is that all of this constant consumption - from scrolling through short form content the moment we wake up, to listening to a TH-cam video or a podcast when we fall asleep - never allows us time alone to process our thoughts and feelings. We spend all this time distracting ourselves and keeping our senses occupied, so the moment we get a minute of silence we feel uncomfortable. It’s why lots of people have trouble falling asleep - your brain NEEDS to process everything you’ve experienced recently, but you’ve spent all day keeping it busy with other things that the only time it gets is right before you go to bed. If you’re reading this, please remember to take short breaks throughout the day. Not to scroll mindlessly or even read a book or play sudoku. Just sit and force yourself to be comfortable with your own company. It’s hard, but it’s worth it 🩷

The mitch jones questing effect

Fuck yeah dude sick video. Subbed. I hope this is the start of you making more thoughtful and creative analyses of digital content.

hell yea, almost 23 so ill be less lonely!

5:01 neuron activation for testing headphones

you just dropped the hardest line of all time with "the opposite of addiction is connection." Nothing has ever been truer

you mentioned you went out with a girl, stopped watching the video, unrelatable narrator

9:40 as a philosophy student who very quickly realised that plato's phillosophy and theories are substanceless fiction, it's cool to see the concept of the cave repurposed to make a real-life point. the writing of this video is excellent and your point is very well communicated

1:48 whats a milenial pause? is that a fetish?

I want to see you bald.

I'm 25, gen z, and I got rid of my phone 2 years ago. At first I was far more social, but then as it went on I began losing my friends. Now I got none, but I feel much happier without my phone and I don't want to go back just because it's more convenient for others. I get it, showing up to someone's house unannounced is odd today but it feels much more real. I think phones are useful, but the way in which we use them is not. The model for technological development to maximize attention and dependency for some billionaires pocket has turned our phones into a drug dealer. I have ADHD, pretty bad ADHD, and the entire platform feels like a trap. I didn't go out, I didn't socialize, I didn't create or think, I endlessly consumed mindless content until it was too late into the evening to get decent sleep. I thought that I was the exception, that other people in my life were more responsible with their screen time and that the issue was merely my own. So I made the decision to drop it only to discover that everyone around me has it just as bad, I was too busy looking down to notice. My peers aren't outside, at the bars, hanging out at the park, my peers are posting on Instagram and getting into spats with one another on Snapchat. The social loop I was once in has vanished, mostly for the better, all the drama and needless chatter is gone. I read more, create more, and feel more. One example of my transformation in how I interact with media is music. No longer can I listen to music whenever I want, it is an event for me when I get to hear a song I wanted to listen to. Sometimes I'll just play the song and sit here at my desk and listen to it, read the lyrics, play it on loop. Full albums feel like cinematic experiences with ups and downs. The little bits of stimulation I was once fed on IV tap is now a supper with honest conversations and tidbits about our days. Reading has been much easier, albeit I'm not reading through a library. I still watch TH-cam when I'm home and play a few video games now and then and my time for reading usually isn't used. When I do read though it can be hard to put the book down, when before it was hard to pick the book up. The literary form of media that carries on a single subject matter is like practice for my brain to staying focused, and it especially helps when it's joyful. Slamming a book closed and looking at the ceiling in a silent living room, talking to myself about the past chapter for an hour and diving back in for more. Not having a distraction in my pocket at all times of the day has been a great experience for me personally. Socially however it has been lonely. I have no desire to go back but I have the digging desire to socialize. Part of my failure is being inept with in person socializing, I find I get nervous, or confused. When I do meet my peers at work or some event the conversations always lead into something that happened online that I am not privy to. I don't know the latest news, or the latest drama, which content creator did what or why, I'm completely in the dark to this information. My peers all converse solely around this information that I have forfeited access to. Often I get confused, or rather bored, and I want to share the information I have been consuming which has changed drastically. The information I want to share are things I've learned, created, or thought about. Thinking is a big one, I spend hours and hours in complete silence just with thoughts and the occasional epiphany and I get excited to eventually share these with others. Then I remember, nobody is there to listen, and even if there was they'd simple stand and wait for me to finish so they can tell me which new DLC has them hyped. I feel so disconnected, but even with my phone I felt disconnected. The content I would consume online would be different than content my friends consumed, the old conversations were still one sided from both perspectives but at least we shared a common medium. I don't know if I would advocate for people to ditch their phones like I have, but feel free to if you wish. I think the main thing is that I am still learning how to be human. Hell, I've had an unfettered internet connection since I was 11 years old. This is how I grew up, it's how I learned to interact with the world and my peers. I wasn't very good at it then and I'm not very good at it now. I'm curious about those who are good at socializing through social media platforms and how they would fair ditching their phones. Would they struggle as I have or would they fair well? Is my lack of friends due more to my inability to socialize or is it the more depressing answer that everyone of my peers is inept at socializing.

Bark bark!

"As a youtuber I care about you specifically, you're my best friend and I love you!" subscribed lol

HITMAN HOURSE!

5:32 damn this quote could be expanded into an entire other video

just subbed, great video. bark bark platt fam

Ok but Citizen Kane is worth the watch

I think what's so ironic about how so many people avoid real human contact, is that when they actually do hang out with friends, they feel amazing. I'm saying this from experience. I've always had friends that will/would pull me out of the house by my hair if they have to. And thank God for that. I've never regretted hanging out with them. But still every other time they ask if I want to do something, my first thought is "nah, I'd rather stay in tonight" lol. In an age where social anxiety is no longer a buzz word, but as common a condition as seasonal allergies, people need to realize that their social anxiety (for like 90% of people anyways) is self inflicted. Get out there and interact with people ffs. The way people are on the internet isn't how real life is.

Honestly, I think one of the best ones is Spiderman: Homecoming. The way teenage life is depicted in that movie (without the superhero stuff) is very accurate to real gen z life

5:00 DankPods enters the chat

There’s an Australian show called “heartbreak high” which does an amazing job of showing what high school is like for Gen Z in Australia. Not a fan of the main chick but love everyone else.

People yearn for soap operas

i agree with all of these points in the broad strokes but i think "go outside" is a bit of a simplistic answer. as someone with social anxiety, the internet has been really helpful in making friends and building close relationships. i think it's better to start with time management - spend your time online watching things you DO want to engage with and share with others, not things you'd rather play in the background. (and you should absolutely go outside sometimes and make irl connections, but the video already talked about that)

Tumblr had the same wistful, lonely, Jack Kerouac wannabe, run away to the PNW, sad cyber goth content as well. Usually pictures or gifs, less so video media like Gen Z has. But millennials definitely fed off a similar feeling, expressing it in slightly different ways on different sites. Also if I remember right, it had more of an air of optimism than now

I love how the video you showed by quentin reviews isn't even the longest

Really interesting video! Also I just wanna give a quick bark bark to my boys in dawg city 🐶🐶🐶

I’m so glad I could find someone to date who has a similar mindset when experiencing media, when we get home, we sit down and watch new episodes of a show we like. We put our phones on the coffee table and just lay down watching it together snuggled in some blankets on the couch while making our own commentaries over it. We’ve even debated recording our commentaries and making our own fan dubs of shows we like. Maybe it’s just because we place a lot of emphasis on information but I’m just glad I can experience media in a similar way with someone else.

I really do believe you hit the mark on this one! I was trying to understand why I was so drawn to livestreams after being a youtube frog for years, I compared how I felt watching a stream live in comparison to watching their vod, and I came to the conclusion that I prefer livestreams because the possibility of interaction with others, even if I didn't chat, made the media I was watching feel more real or like a hangout as you described it. It was also much easier to tune into someones stream because I was tuning in for that streamer rather than whatever clickbaity title and thumbnail a creator had. Really cool video!

Touched my soul

this is so true! I think we all instinctively realize this too, but we are just too comfortable to want to go through the discomfort of unpacking this and analyzing it.

great vid also atrioc and small ant referenced woah…

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Nice Vid, also HITMAN HORSE MENTIONED

woah boys this was a really high quality essay amirite bark bark bark

Look for a show called fishtank and try catch the next season, its literally a show designed to be as parasocial as possible, watching the community has been very interesting over the past 3.5 seasons

I love the video style, keep the good work up ^^

I have watched the four hour icarly video essay multiple times. it is one of my favorite videos to watch while drawing, gaming, etc. and I just want someones voice to be white noise in the background; that video is perfect because its just long enough that I cant memorize *all* of it so it becomes boring, but also well made enough that I have favorite bits my brain tunes back in for to appreciate again

2:22 You forgot to mention the Words with Friends segment and being a horrible dog owner

Dis vid got me barking for the boys bark bark right now fr

The title needs to be better, its stopping it from being viral..